OC Food Bank Teams Up With New Foodie Site

In its never-ending quest to inform Orange Countians what it is up to--and what they can do to help--Orange County Food Bank has partnered with a start-up website dedicated to connecting local eaters, restaurateurs and grocery stores.

Started by foodie Anthony Bigos, the free online news service Foodbite.com strives to "help people broadcast, discover and share up-to-the-minute news and information happening around the corner and around the world."

Orange County Food Bank director Mark Lowry believes Foodbite can help spread the word about how people can get involved with the nonprofit, which distributes 19 million pounds of food annually to 23,000 needy residents. "We hope that people who are passionate about good food will also be passionate about helping those without," Lowry says.

"Good things will come of this relationship," adds Bigos.

Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before "graduating" to OC Weekly in 1995 as the paper's first calendar editor. He has contributed as a freelance editor and writer to several publications and been the subject of or featured in several reports online, in print and on the radio and television. One of countless times he returned to his Costa Mesa, CA, home with a bounty of awards from a journalism competition, his wife told him to take out the trash.